EyePet in Stores on November 17

Hi everyone! We have been talking about EyePet for quite some time now, and I’m happy to let everyone know that we now have a US release date for all you pet lovers who are anxious to get their hands-on EyePet. Just in time for the holidays, EyePet will be available in stores across North America beginning on November 17 for $39.99. For those of you who don’t have a PlayStation Eye, we will be offering a special bundle for $59.99, which will include EyePet and the PS Eye.

If you aren’t familiar with EyePet, it’s basically all the fun of owning a pet without the mess! Featuring next generation augmented reality, EyePet delivers an interactive lifelike, virtual pet right into your own living room using the PS Eye. He will respond and relate to movements in your own world. Pet him, and he will purr. Tickle him and he will laugh. Roll a ball to him and he will chase it. You get the point.

EyePet is also customizable, letting you modify fur length, color and pattern, as well as the ability to outfit your pet with more than 250 unique collectible items. Using the included “Magic Card,” owners can also bring drawings and objects to life by simply sketching things like an airplane or car, and make them your pet’s own three-dimensional toy.

Describing it is one thing. Seeing it is another. Please check out the video featuring Developer Nic Doucet giving a demonstration as to how EyePet works.

We’ll have more to come on EyePet between now and November. So make sure to check back with us here on the PSBlog.

I have a few questions,
1. Can we have something other than a monkey, ie a Cat or Dog? My wife wants a dog but I want a cat, this may provide an equal ground.

2. Are you allowed multiple pets at the same time on 1 screen, could they interact with each other? I can see 1 pet getting lonely if you have your PS3 running idle.

3. You checked the monkey’s vital signs, does this mean they could become injured or die? I doubt they would die, try explaining that to the kids…”No honey, the monkey did not die…well actually yes he did” lol

looks like very cool technology. I am curious as to if you can have to pets on the same screen. Like if your friend had it too could he bring his virtual pet to play. Oh and do the pets have different personalities, that’d be super cool.

I am 26yrs old and I will have this game on day 1. all u people that say someone is too old for this need to check your gamer status.There is some amazing technology going on in this game,tech that rivals project natal.Not to mention the real time graphics of the pet itself.I wanted 8 days to come out too.I saw the first trailer probably before any of you.However the devs saw eye-pet as a more ambitious project and it is.

Eye-pet-Augmented reality game that pushes motion control and ps-eye functions to a new level.Featuring technonogy that gives project natal a run for its money.

8days-Just another action game.

The Getaway-Another action game.

By the way, this game isn’t going to come anywhere near close to flopping. There’s tons of people thatwere hoping for an ’09 release date.

Interestin. But, whats the replay value? Why should I come back to this? How do you keep the life of this goin besides the usual dlc. But, what kind of dlc can you have to make it interestin besides clothes?

@ffhnod, you may be old now.. but you were once a kid, and It is really not bad if you get this… just enjoy whatever it is you can get from life.. and a thing like this is just something you can have fun with.

for all the ppl that keep sayin it should be a psn download for 10$ are complete uter morons. first off if u download it from psn how you gonna get the majic card? and dnt say sum stupid like they can mail it thats just idiotic. if ur to cheap to pay 40$ fr his then dont buy it 40$ is not alot especially when for 20$ more u get the eye. waittill project gaytal comes out prolly gone be 100$ at least. basically wat im tryin to say is IT CANNOT BE A PSN DOWNLOAD IDIOTS!!!!!!

also i am totsly getting this i think it looks very impresive and my son willprolly love it to

Wow I thought this would be a $15-$20 PSN title, not a BD disc. At $40, not interested but it does look nice. It looks like a fun one-time title like Aquatopia but I don’t see myself wanting to revisit the pet more than a handful of times. Trophies are probably going to be easy, “wash your pet” and “feed your pet.” lol

@130 yes it could be a psn downloadable game just like they did w/ Marvel vs Capcom 2 and you go to a store grab the case which would have the card in it and a code to download the game and if ppl buy the psn title off store then they could prob print the card hell i mean ppl printed the eye of judgment cards why not this card

My fiancee and I are definitely getting this. The multiple ways to interact with your pet is awesome plus with a newborn it’ll be good for him later on.

A small question though: I’m not sure if individual companies control this or what, but when might we see EyePet available for preorder in the US? UK’s Amazon has it up for preorder but after looking around for quite some time I can’t seem to find it available for preorder in the US yet.

i’m curious what the trophies will be like and how much that will add to the replyability of the game. I am intrigued by the concept but do worry that I will never touch the thing, after the novelty wares off (and don’t plan on purchasing $5 dlc costume packs for my pet either)

would like to buy for simple entertainment, wonder of the tech, and to support more innovative “games” (not just in competition of 360). This would be a great “game” with an option of leaving it on the hard drive either copied from disk or purchase of game card etc. and download code for use with psn like psp go, games. Otherwise, i can’t see it being enjoyed/accessed as much on family ps3.